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Over the summer ITS gradually changed the Augustana mailing lists to Digest Mode. To learn more about Digest Mode, you can read the Digest Mode FAQ here. We did this to make it easier for our users to distinguish email that is sent to them personally from email that is sent campus-wide.

However…

… Digest Mode is not a requirement. If you do not like digest email and you would like to switch back to receiving individual emails as they are sent, you can change your preferences in Gmail by following these directions: Read more…

Do you find yourself sending out the same message over and over with very slight alterations? If you would like to be able to use what you have written previously in a new email, you might want to use “Canned Responses” which is one of the “Google Labs” available for Gmail.

The rest of this entry contains instructions about how to use Canned Responses. Read more…

The rest of this entry contains instructions on how to create a filter (click “Read more…”). Read more…

Google’s services are great, but definitely not perfect. To that end, I came across this set of slides in Google’s support area that gives some tips on troubleshooting Google Mail and Calendar problems.

Sometimes, problems are caused either by a brief outage in service or a Google Lab or similar add-on that has been enabled that is causing a problem. But if a Labs feature is causing the problem and you can’t even display your inbox, what then? Disabling labs can be accomplished by visiting this custom address (note the “labs=0″ part at the end of the address) https://mail.google.com/a/augustana.edu/?labs=0.